Mahabharata 11.26.23

11.26.23

yānsuparṇāśca gṛdhrāśca vikarṣanti tatastataḥ |
teṣāṃ tu karmaṇā lokā bhaviṣyanti yudhiṣṭhira || 23 ||

"Dhritarashtra said, ‘It is necessary that our people should burn, with due rites, the bodies of both the friendless and the friended slain. What shall we do with those that have none to look after them and that have no sacred fires? The duties that await us are many. Who are those whose (last) rites we should perform? O Yudhishthira, will they obtain regions of blessedness by the merit of their acts, they whose bodies are now being torn and dragged by vultures and other birds?’"